Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 26, 2022

Another story from the annals of My Life:

I went to a convention years ago, and during a break found myself in the Hospitality Suite. I met a rather interesting young lady there, and I was quite intrigued – until I found out she was one of these environmental/conservationist fanatics. I kept suggesting she come up to my room, and all she could say was that there weren’t enough wild horses left in the world.

King also wrote the driver of that van into one of his Dark Tower novels, by full name, and depicted him as a mentally-disabled, demon possessed drug addict, just a few years after the man had died in real life.

So what did the van’s original owner get (aside from King’s money)?

It’s a good thing that Cujo wasn’t there to “comfort” Stephen King when he had the accident.

Mrs. Fogwhistle’s birthday is October 28th. Many years ago, when we still lived in Iowa, we brought home a new puppy on October 29. I told the family that the puppy has to be trained in one month. I said the family rule starting November 29 is that any pee or poop on the floor means a night outside.

Sure enough, I came home on November 30th and found pee and poop on the floor. I knew I had to enforce the rule even though it was a really cold night.

I put a bunch of blankets and a space heater in the doghouse but the kids kept crying and my wife was yelling at me, “He won’t survive, it is too cold out there.”

I said listen up everyone, “Rules are rules and if the dog can be potty trained, so can your grandpa.”

Until next time.

Walk against the traffic so you can see them trying to kill you!! Drivers are too busy to notice what’s on the road. I said this to lunch time joggers at work and they ignored me. Luckily only one was hit and only broke a leg. You can’t win against tons of car or truck.

I would feel weird about having that truck. What if it had visible signs on it of having struck a man so hard? It’s morbid!

My ex’s father had an under bite that could have rivaled those whales. But he was from Tennessee so it was understandable.

Take care, may aspiring horror novelist Jack “Stop Reading The Last Paragraph Of My Books First” Graveyord be with you, and gesundheit.

My Grandfather was a battlefield medic in WWI.

More like Cujo. The driver of the van that hit Stephen King lost control when her dog acted up.

That’s only part of the story.King bought the van so he could personally wreck it with a sledgehammer.Revenge is sweet.

This is a repeat.

We could all use mercy dogs.

Sperm Whale teeth are the Ivory form for most Scrimshaw. 19th and 20th century carvings are legal to own, and sell.

Sperm Whale Ivory (Scrimshaw) was legal to own up to 1973. If the ivory or scrimshaw was produced after this year, it is prohibited after that year for commercial import in the U.S. under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

As for the Sperm Whale, they are odontocetes, meaning toothed whales. Unlike humans–who have four types of teeth (incisors, canines, premolars, and molars), sperm whales are monophyodonts, which means they only have one type of tooth. This single tooth is banana shaped, with a slight curve towards the sperm whale’s body.

Dogs are Awesome!

King wrote a book about his accident experience

I hope those mercy dogs had a barrel of brandy on their collars.

Those mercy dogs remind me of a scene in The Beguiled, where Clint Eastwood gives a dying confederate soldier a puff on his cigar

Wow – thank you for including your explanation, Monkeysky!!